90% of Facebook Apps Have Unnecessary Access to Private Data
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Researcher is building a prototype to protect users’ privacy from Facebook ‘widgets’
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JANUARY 31, 2008 |Â University of Virginia researchers have discovered that 90.7 percent of Facebook’s most popular applications have access to users’ private data, whether they need it or not — leaving users exposed to targeted phishing attacks and identity theft. So a [...]
